Motion and Synchronization Analysis of Musical Ensembles with the Kinect

Aristotelis Hadjakos, and Tobias Grosshauser

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Music ensembles have to synchronize themselves with a very high precision inorder to achieve the desired musical results. For that purpose the musicians donot only rely on their auditory perception but also perceive and interpret themovements and gestures of their ensemble colleges. In this paper we present aKinect-based method to analyze ensemble play based on head tracking. We discussfirst experimental results with a violin duo performance.

Citation:

Aristotelis Hadjakos, and Tobias Grosshauser. 2013. Motion and Synchronization Analysis of Musical Ensembles with the Kinect. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178540

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Hadjakos2013,
 abstract = {Music ensembles have to synchronize themselves with a very high precision inorder to achieve the desired musical results. For that purpose the musicians donot only rely on their auditory perception but also perceive and interpret themovements and gestures of their ensemble colleges. In this paper we present aKinect-based method to analyze ensemble play based on head tracking. We discussfirst experimental results with a violin duo performance.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Aristotelis Hadjakos and Tobias Grosshauser},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178540},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Kinect, Ensemble, Synchronization, Strings, Functional Data Analysis, Cross-Correlogram},
 month = {May},
 pages = {106--110},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Motion and Synchronization Analysis of Musical Ensembles with the Kinect},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_304.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}